Kim Leadbeater’s shift leaves us in unusual territory
Labour MP Kim Leadbeater, sponsor of the Terminally Ill Adults Bill Through the duplicity of Newspeak, a government can rewrite its own history. Hence the concept of “malreports” and “malquotes”, an Orwellian coinage for the situation when an approved publication “reports a fact which the government later deemed untrue”.
When MPs voted to back Leadbeater’s bill at the second reading in November, Hansard appears to show her promising that “two medical professionals and a High Court judge” would review each case, ensuring that no applicant could be coerced into ending their life prematurely. The linguistic logic is torturous if you follow it through. Yet follow it through we must, because Leadbeater’s defence of her legislation depends on her insistence that language can mean whatever she wants it to mean.
What is most infuriating about Leadbeater’s U-turn is that the judiciary has long been united in telling her that the first draft of her plan was unworkable, even as she was trumpeting it through the Commons.
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